The Machinations of the Myo - ok. By Cecil Lowis. (Methuen and
Co. 6s.)—"Myo-ok " means in Burmese "township officer," and the particular officer whose machinations we are invited to follow has charge of Myothit ; Anglia, Newtown. By an unlucky lapse of caution, he loses four thousand rupees out of the treasure- chest in his charge, and the pressing question with him is how to shunt off this loss on to some other set of rails than his own. The situation is complicated, it should be said, by the fact that he has to hand over his official duties and belongings to a suc- cessor within two days. We cannot say that this part of the story interested us much. It is not a little complicated, and takes at least as much trouble to follow as it is worth. It is ingenious, however, and the Burmese officials of various grades are vividly drawn. But the really good part of the tale is the love-story, not at all a romantic affair, but admirably natural.
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